Ballad of Reading Gaol II (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Version IHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of commonclayI had climbed the ...
It was night-time and He was alone.And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards thecity.And ...
Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea,having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the ...
I. The corn has turned from grey to red, Since first my spirit wandered forth From the drear cities of ...
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon ...
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
Dear Heart, I think the young impassioned priest When first he takes from out the hidden shrine His God imprisoned ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
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